IGN Live is back for a second year in 2025, partly filling the gaping hole in all of us left by an absent E3

Look, everyone knows E3 is useless. Effectively, no less than the occasion that we knew as E3 is useless – there’s something called Iicon that is strutting arond sporting the useless E3’s garments however we expect it is liable to be one thing of an imposter. It is a pruely B2B occasion, for a begin.

However we have, no less than, obtained alternate options. There’s the Keighley-backed Summer season Video games Fest that is rising and rising yearly (even when it doesn’t yet hold a candle to our dearly departed Digital Leisure Expo). Then there’s additionally IGN Live. Aimed extra at followers than it’s at journos and businessmen, IGN Reside will return this June for a second yr, and it plans to be larger and higher as a bodily occasion than final yr’s Los Angeles-based blowout.

IGN Reside will as soon as once more be primarily based at LA’s Magic Field downtown occasion area, and can characteristic hands-on oppurtunities for unreleased video games, a stage with contemporary reveals and trailers, interviews, and celeb panels. It is like all of the bits you cared about at E3 with none of the backroom offers the place execs would shake arms and waggle on about video games that may most likely by no means get launched.

The massive higlights that stand proud of final yr embrace an interview with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy’s solid, an interview and sneak peek for the upcoming Borderlands movie, and a few contemporary Greedfall 2 gameplay.

If you wish to go and see what all the excitement is about for your self (and nab your self some extra particulars on dates and tickets after they’re accessible), merely head over to this link.

Disclaimer: IGN Reside is hosted and organised by VG247 and Gamer Community’s mother or father firm, IGN.